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The undeniable consequence, it seems, is that the role of Lord Chancellor has changed from being an office that would conclude a career—a destination job, if I can put it that way, or a grand terminus for a glorious locomotive—to being little more than an intermediate station stop; a resting point before the political journey continues on to greater things. Sometimes, I have to say, in recent years the grand train embodied by the person of the Lord Chancellor has more closely resembled a replacement bus service.